| SUAREZ | Ex-"Talk of the Nation" host Ray |
| NEAL | ___ Conan (former "Talk of the Nation" host) |
| PADMA | Author and "Taste the Nation" host Lakshmi |
| ELLEN | - - - DeGeneres, US ex-talk show host (5) |
| PIERS | Outspoken ex-Talk TV presenter, _ Morgan (5) |
| NPR | Home of "Talk of the Nation" |
| ROCCA | "The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation" host Mo |
| RACHAEL | Talk show host Ray |
| MAGNOLIA | This tree is the floral emblem of the nation of North Korea and the state flower of both Louisiana and Mississippi |
| ADIL | Lingo host, - - - Ray (4) |
| CONFEDERATE | The prisoner and the FBI man note the speed of the nation (11) |
| GANDHI | Famous proponent of nonviolence and India's Father of the Nation, he is considered by many as the most deserving person never to be awarded the Peace Prize |
| YEMENI | Citizen of the nation on the southwestern region of the Arabian Peninsula (6) |
| EVAPERON | First Lady of Argentina from 1946 to 1952, given the honorary title of Spiritual Leader of the Nation (3,5) |
| TREE | 'And the leaves of the ___ were for the healing of the nations' (Revelation 22: 2) (4) |
| ARENA | Aware nation hosts sporting venue (5) |
| STATUE | Nation hosts university figure (6) |
| SORRY | The 'S' word uttered by Australia's Prime Minister Rudd in his apology to the Aboriginal people of the nation |
| KING | "Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe you must become its soul." She was a Black civil rights activist beginning in the 1950s. Who said this? |
| NAVY | The whole body of the nation's ships of war, including crews, maintenance systems, etc |
